upper face

The air stagnated for a moment.

Lin Kuan swallowed hard, and just when he thought he would not get any response, the old lady quickly laughed: "Thank you."

She took the flower with one hand, twirled it between her fingertips and looked at it for a few seconds before asking, "Your name is Lin Kuan, can I call you Xiao Kuan?"

"Ah," Lin Kuan was flattered, and quickly agreed, "Of course!"

As Song Wenke said, until the end, Mrs. Song never made things difficult for Lin Kuan, and even said a word to Lin Kuan when he was about to leave in the end.

She said this: "Although Kezai is older than you, he grew up in the army, and he may think of some things more childishly than you. If you think he is making trouble for no reason, don't swallow it yourself and make a noise." If you have any dissatisfaction with him, vent it out."

These plain words really reached Lin Kuan's heart.Song Wenke replied with embarrassment: "No—Grandma, why do you still encourage us to quarrel?"

Grandma laughed inscrutablely and didn't respond.Song Wenke had no choice but to push Lin Kuan out of the ward, and when he closed the door and stood in the corridor, he remembered something: "By the way, why did you suddenly come to the hospital today to see me...Grandma?" The Adam's apple rolled up and down in a circle, and a blush flew across his cheeks.

Lin Kuan quickly explained: "No, I came here for a physical examination, and I met Brother Yan just after I left the hospital gate..."

"Oh." Hearing the truth, Song Wenke's expression turned depressed, "So you didn't want to see me, and you wanted to leave without saying a word?"

"..." Lin Kuan choked for a moment, and didn't reply, after all, he was wronged first.

Without any response, Chief Song's complexion became more and more gloomy. He suddenly stretched out his big palm and squeezed the ass of the person in front of him hard, causing Lin Kuan to jump away with an "ouch".

"Why are you pinching me—?!" His eyes widened with disbelief, and his ears began to turn red.

Several doctors in white coats happened to pass by and glanced at them strangely.

"Hmph," Chief Song turned his face inscrutablely, and put his hand on the doorknob, "In order to punish you for your indifference, I decided not to see you off on the way down the stairs. You should reflect on it."

After speaking, without looking at Lin Kuan's expression, he opened the door and walked in. The solid aluminum door slowly closed.

The latter stared at the closed beige door, unable to understand why the other party was angry.The sound insulation effect of the hospital gate was good, and there was no sound leaking out for most of the day, so Lin Kuan had no choice but to turn around and leave.

Just passing through the corridor, a person hurried past him, and something fell to the ground with a "click".Lin Kuan looked down and found that it was a magnetic card, so he quickly picked it up and caught up with the tall figure in a few steps.

"Hello, please wait a moment, your things have been dropped."

The man turned around, with a few strands of white hair tucked between his foreheads, his face was somewhat similar to Song Wenke's.

"Thank you." He stretched out his right hand to take the card, and the exposed tiger's mouth was covered with thick calluses.

"It's okay." Lin Kuan waved his hand with a smile, turned around and continued walking towards the elevator.

***

Mrs. Song was discharged from the hospital soon.

She originally wanted to keep the rocking chair, but the old commander Song refused to let her take any more risks. As early as when the old lady was hospitalized, the swing was dismantled, leaving only an empty vine shelf.

For this reason, the old lady couldn't help but sulking with her son.

Seeing that grandma was in good health, Song Wenke also officially returned to work in the army, and only occasionally returned to the urban area on Saturdays and Sundays.In order to prevent Ji Guitang, he also bought a lot of sports equipment for his villa, just to attract Lin Kuan to his house to play, and sometimes he simply let people stay there.Lin Kuan didn't like to do it, so he just hugged someone to sleep, in short, he didn't force him too much.

Time passed quickly, and it was April in a blink of an eye.Lin Kuan planned to go home on the Ching Ming Festival. He was afraid that Song Wenke would come to him again, so he talked about it. Unexpectedly, the next day, Chief Song came over with a bag and announced: "I will be with you on the Ching Ming Festival." Let's go back."

This matter felt like a final decision, and Lin Kuan had no way of refusing it, so he could only let the other party follow him on the high-speed rail.

In fact, Lin Kuan would not go home as early as Qingming in the past few years. After all, the May Day holiday is just around the corner, and taking the high-speed train several times back and forth would really waste a lot of money.But Lin's mother, who was originally full of joy that Lin Kuan found a good date, first heard that he broke up with him after returning to school, and kept urging him to go home quickly, asking him to explain clearly in person.

Lin Kuan had no choice but to buy a ticket in desperation.

Song Wenke looks handsome, because he is a soldier, his back is always straight, regardless of his personality, many elders love him very much at first sight.Lin Kuan's mother was no exception. When her son entered the door, she said he brought someone back. She thought it was his girlfriend, but when she saw a tall and powerful man following behind, she was dumbfounded, and her heart couldn't help but twitched.Fortunately, Lin Kuan explained that this was his friend, and then he recovered.

Lin Kuan seldom brought friends home. He still remembered that the last time he was ushered in was a colleague who had worked with him for several years. Mother Lin was so happy that she even forgot about her girlfriend. She hurriedly greeted Song Wenke, That night, he also cooked a table of sumptuous dishes for him.

I don't know if it's to please the "mother-in-law" or something, Chief Song has always behaved decently in front of Mama Lin, acting like an "absolute best friend" from the beginning to the end-except for the two lying on the same bed at night When he was in bed, he often used hands and feet—Papa Lin glanced at the two of them and didn't say much. The next day, he played chess with Song Wenke, and the two had a great time fighting.

Lin Kuan explained to his mother in a general way that he broke up with the girl because he felt that she was not suitable for him. Mother Lin was concerned about the presence of outsiders, so she didn't say much.

On Qingming Festival, the family went climbing to sweep a tomb, and Song Wenke went with them.Lin Kuan asked Song Wenke why he didn't go home to visit the grave. He said that because he was afraid of the crowds during the holiday, he and his grandma and father had already gone there a week earlier.

It has been raining lightly since the morning, but it still can't stop people from going up the mountain. The tomb of Lin Jiazu is halfway up the mountain, so the road is muddy. Song Wenke's boots were splashed with brown mud spots.The two had good physical strength, and one of them walked ahead carrying a bag of things. Lin Kuan skillfully led Song Wenke around the mountain, and soon arrived at the destination.

Lin Kuan asked Song Wenke to support him, then took out a small shovel from his backpack, dug up all the incense ash left over from the last grave sweep, and then simply cleaned the tombstone.After setting up the incense sticks, Mother Lin and Father Lin also climbed up. At that time, Song Wenke was holding two umbrellas with both hands, one was propped on his head, and the other closely followed Lin Kuan's movements, sometimes because the other party moved The extent of it was too big, and I didn't even cover it, and most of my shoulders were wet.

Mother Lin stared at this scene, thinking of something, her face was a little ugly.

***

There were only three days of vacation, and on the last day, Lin Kuan proposed to take Song Wenke to visit his junior high school.

Lin Kuan has been a sports student since junior high school. He studied in a sports school all the way. When he was in junior high school, he transferred to a public junior high school near his home. What impressed him most was practicing on the lime track every day. He didn’t know how much dust he sucked during those days. Ash.Now that the school has been refurbished, the lime track has been replaced by a plastic track, which has lost the taste of many memories.

The sky was still blue, with a few clouds floating above, slowly drifting away, and there was not a single car or pedestrian on the road.

When the two of them walked near the iron fence near the road, Song Wenke's brain suddenly twitched, and he hugged Lin Kuan's waist from behind, and put his head on his neck.

"I suddenly thought of a question..."

"Lin-kuan-!"

An extremely sharp female voice came from nowhere, the two were puzzled for a second, and Lin Kuan realized that it was a fucking voice, his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly pulled away his hand, but it was too late , Mother Lin was holding a pile of vegetables in her hand, standing outside the wire fence with an angry face and staring at the two of them.

She pointed at Lin Kuan in disbelief: "You, you...you unfilial son!"

"Mom!" Lin Kuan's heart was full of anxiety. He remembered what she said at the beginning, and knew that there would be another scolding, and maybe he would be kicked out of the house. He was so scared that he couldn't say a word, let alone explain. "No..."

It's not what you think? ——What else could it be! ?

"Auntie, calm down..." Song Wenke was calm, took Lin Kuan's hand, and said to Lin's mother a few steps forward.

Of course, Mother Lin didn't appreciate it. She pointed at Lin Kuan with a downcast face and said, "Boy, come out."

"Mom..." Lin Kuan hesitantly broke away from Song Wenke's hand, who slowly frowned and stared at his face.

Song Wenke was a person who came out of the closet, and he was no stranger to the violent reaction of his parents, but Lin Kuan couldn't help being terrified. He was worried that Lin's mother would not think about it, and he was afraid that she would beat and scold him. After all, these two things were not very good brilliance.

Of course, Mother Lin was out of breath. In fact, her son hadn't brought a girl home for so many years, and he finally fell in love, and he acted so carelessly. She had more or less planted suspicions in her heart. This time He brought back a "friend", but the way the other party looked at him was very strange.Sometimes the two of them thought that Mother Lin was not paying attention to them, so they exchanged glances with each other. Those expressions entered her eyes, and no matter how you looked at them, they seemed to be expressing affection.

It's just that she didn't say anything, she thought she was thinking too much.

She hopes so too.

Unfortunately, reality is always cruel.

Mother Lin asked Lin Kuan to come out by herself, and stared at Song Wenke vigilantly. She no longer had the friendly look she had before. When Lin Kuan walked from the side door to the road, she pulled her son over, turned her head and said to Song Wenke, "Don't talk to me. come over."

She and Lin Kuan walked back home in silence, Song Wenke kept following from a distance, Lin Kuan was anxiously thinking about what to do, but in the end he had no clue because of panic.As soon as the gate was closed, Mama Lin scolded him all over the face, saying things like "You rebellious boy" and "It was in vain to give birth to you and raise you for so many years". At the end, she asked strangely, "Is it true He forced you?"

After talking to this point, Lin Kuan didn't intend to hide any more, he would go all out and confess to his mother: "Mom, I have liked men for a long time, since high school... I can't change it." Said At this point, he still wanted to defend himself—or ask for forgiveness, but his mouth trembled a few times, and he didn't continue to speak after all.

Father Lin went to work and hasn't come back yet.Mother Lin is a strong woman, but without the support of a man at the moment, she can't help showing her weakness.Suddenly, two lines of tears fell from her eyes.

"You're only 27 years old," she complained, choking, "You're not old yet!"

Lin Kuan opened his eyes wide, but did not understand the meaning of this sentence.

"Go out," she wiped the tears from her face, and pointed to the door, "I don't want to see you anymore, get out!"

Seeing her determined expression, Lin Kuan's eyes were sore. He didn't want to lie to his mother anymore, but he couldn't think of good words to persuade her to forgive and even tolerate him. Her pale face was full of disappointment and pain. Lin Kuan could only Step back.

His footsteps have never been so trembling, not purely because of this unexpected revelation, but more because of the frustration and resentment rising from the bottom of his heart, he absolutely hates this feeling of powerlessness.

Lin Kuan ran downstairs in a hurry. As soon as he left the gate of the community, he saw Song Wenke standing next to the telephone pole. There was no special expression on his face. The old god was on the ground.

In an instant, anger rose to the top of his head, as if he had found an outlet for his negative emotions, he rushed forward and punched the opponent without saying a word.

"Tell you to fucking hug me—"